Le Morne Nature Reserve, South West Coast of Mauritius

Mainstreaming biodiversity into the management of the coastal zone in the Republic of Mauritius

The project seeks to to mainstream the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services into coastal zone management and into the operations and policies of the tourism and physical development sectors in the Republic of Mauritius through a ‘land- and seascape wide’ integrated management approach based on the Environmental Sensitive Areas’ (ESAs) inventory and assessment.

More specifically, the project will achieve this through a three-pronged approach:

  1. support the incorporation of ESA recommendations into policies and enforceable regulations pertaining to integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), thereby mitigating threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functions and resilience with a special focus on tourism and physical development in the coastal zone; 
  2. support the effective management of marine protected areas (MPAs) across the RM, given that they contain an important proportion of critically sensitive ESAs; and
  3. demonstrate mechanisms to arrest land degradation in sensitive locations, focusing on reducing coastal erosion and sedimentation and helping to restore ecosystem functions in key wetland areas.

For more information, download the project factsheet.

Aerial view of the South East coast of Mauritius
 

 

Impact

START DATE

January 2016

END DATE

December 2022

STATUS

Completed

PROJECT OFFICE

Mauritius

IMPLEMENTING PARTNER

Government of Mauritius

DONORS

Global Environment Fund Trustee

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS

$6,671,315

DELIVERY IN PREVIOUS YEARS

2016$0

2017$172,026

2018$570,513

2019$999,340

2020$996,501

2021$812,266

2022$890,903

2023$474,902

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